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PI:
"How I need a drink, alcoholic, of course".
(3.1415926)
The planets in our solar system (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto):
"My very elegant mother just served us nine pizzas"
or "My very easy method just speeds up naming planets" (thanks, Cheryl)
You killed Pluto, you bastards! (August 2006)
I suppose we'll have to use:
"My very elegant mother just served us nothing"
or "My very easy method just speeds up nomenclature"
The twelve Cranial nerves:
Olfactory, Optic, Oculormotor,
Trochlear, Trigeminal, Abduceans, Facial, Auditory,
Glosspharyngeal, Vagus, Accessory, Hypoglossal
make
"On Old Olympus' Towering Tops A Foolish Austrian
Grew Vines and Hops."
http://www.demon.co.uk/mindtool/memory.html
My English teacher's list of the exceptions to the "i-e"
rule ("I before E except after C, or when sounded as
A, as in neighbor and weigh"), slightly improved:
The ancient society of weird foreign scientists
seized neither leisure nor the sheik's heifers
at these heights.
The spectrum of colors in sunlight:
Roy G. Biv
(red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet)
Or:
Richard Of York gave battle in vain (thanks, Thomas David Baker)
The great lakes,
Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie and Superior
become
HOMES
or:
Super Man Helps Every One
Four American states border Mexico - try
CAN'T
for California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.
Geologic periods:
Cambrian Ordovician Silurian Devonian Carboniferous
Permian Triassic Jurassic Cretaceous Eocene
Oligocene Miocene Pliocene Pleistocene Holocene
from:
CAMels Often Sit Down CARefully, PERhaps Their Joints
CREak: Early Oiling May Prove Positively Helpful
The Iriquois tribes:
Mohawk, Seneca, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga
become
[does someone have the answer to this one?]
The zoological groupings:
Kindom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species
becomes
King Philip Came Over For Golf Shoes.
(Sadie Van Buren, Waltham, MA)